Marc Joseph

According to Fox News, the percent of married households in the U.S. fell to 48.4 percent in 2010, down from 55.2 percent in 1990 and 78 percent in 1960. This is the lowest in recorded history for our country. In 1960, according to the LA Times,...

"Generation Z" are our kids that have been born since the late 1990's. This generation has grown up with the World Wide Web and is highly connected because of the Internet. Instant messaging, text messaging, smartphones, tablet computers and social networking are part of their fiber. They have 24 hour...

Forbes just came out with their latest list of billionaires. The media during our recession and tax crisis has been concentrating on the top 1%, which are Americans earning at least $343,000 in adjusted gross income as reported on their tax returns. This latest list of billionaires is...

Open Forum reports that there is an 11% increase in the number of small businesses closing and a 17% decline in the number of small businesses opening.

Get Busy Median reports 69% of small businesses survive at least two years, 44% of new firms survive four...

Now that the holiday season is over and retailers in general are reporting slightly higher sales than last year, the business community is letting out a shared sigh of relief, because it could have easily gone the other way continuing the recession we have all been dealing with over the...

What has America gotten itself in to? Just about every state and every city is cutting back funding to services needed by those who need it most.

The Chicago Reporter published the headline this week "Temperatures dropping. Will the state restore funding for homeless shelters?" It goes on...

October is Adopt a Pet Shelter Month, and as far as I am concerned, we should be celebrating this every month of the year. According to the Humane Society site, animal shelters care for up to 8 million dogs and cats every year and euthanize around 4 million...

Last week the White House released their "American Jobs Act" proposal. Two ideas that caught my eye included preventing up to 280,000 teacher layoffs, and modernizing at least 35,000 public schools by supporting new science labs, Internet-ready classrooms and renovations at schools across the country, in rural and...

This is the slogan used by the non-profit, volunteer-led organization Soldiers Angels that has been assisting families of veterans and veterans deployed, wounded and moving back into society. These volunteers are mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters of soldiers, as well as regular Americans who know the sacrifices our military makes...

I don't need to rehash what has been going on in Washington. The moves that were made with the most recent agreements, we are told, were made to protect our children and their future. I am more worried about protecting our children of today to make sure we don't have...

Yesterday, July 20, there was an article in The Huffington Post called "Debt Ceiling Standoff Hurts Consumer Confidence." In The Wall Street Journal today, an article says "Layoffs Deepen Gloom" and concludes, "The stepped up pace of layoffs suggests companies are losing faith in the prospect of...

The Wall Street Journal reported today "For Small Businesses, Recession Isn't Over". As a supplier to small businesses of over 140,000 general merchandise products, we knew the recession wasn't over months ago because small businesses are still having trouble getting traffic into their business; then having those buyers...